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...Back in Karachi from his U.S. visit, Camel Driver Bashir Ahmad was a changed man. Bashir, whose customary costume used to be baggy salwar pants and a sweaty turban, now swanked around town in a spiffy achkan (a knee-length formal coat) and karakul cap, saw would-be visitors by appointment only. Saddest of all, Bashir is a camel driver no more. Awaiting delivery of a truck given him by his U.S. host, Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Bashir has leased his camel and cart to a relative...
...IFTEKHAR BANG Karachi, Pakistan...
...tour of Asia last spring, Vice President Lyndon Johnson stopped on a Pakistani roadside to greet an impoverished, illiterate camel-cart driver who had a grin as wide as his handlebar mustache. A true Texan, the Vice President casually invited Bashir Ahmad to "come and see us, heah?" A Karachi columnist picked up the invitation and ran with it: "My, Bashir is certainly lucky. He'll stay at the Waldorf-Astoria." Almost before Johnson could say L.B.J., he realized that his invitation had been accepted, and he was stuck with it. Last week Bashir jetted into New York, speaking...
...were debating long before Toynbee seized on it-ignores a worldwide phenomenon. What the world's masses, particularly in underdeveloped nations, now aspire to is not just a bare subsistence. Convinced by the U.S. ex ample that poverty is not an essential condition of human existence, men from Karachi to the Congo are demanding an affluent society for themselves and are working toward...
...Karachi, Pakistan...